Club Records

Introduction

January 2015 - Many of our long term members hold bits and pieces of the Club papers/records since we were founded in 1982. These include copies of Minutes of Committee Meetings, Annual General Meetings and published Club Newsletters. It is my intention to gather together as many of these as possible (I borrowed quite a lot from Don Bennett about 6 years ago as I intend(ed) to add some detail to the Club History. My intention now is to add both the History (to the history page) and the race records to this page, watch this space!

Frank Brownlie, Chair, East London Runners

For example, see below!

Sunday 16th September 2018 - Antonio Martin Romero breaks his and the ELR Club Record Marathon time in BERLIN in a time of 2:29:29!

Antonio Martin Romero: Berlin Marathon Report (Sorry! A bit long)I am still digesting my yesterday's race. After 12 weeks of hard training, the big day arrived. I did a 20-minute warm-up before heading to the start. The idea was to go out at 3:39/km (5:52 per mile) and try to keep that pace as much as I can to achieve a sub 2h35'. The race started and the first two kilometres were at the target pace, which were the slowest ones in my race. After 6 km I managed to find a group, but they slowed down a little bit and I moved to the next one, where I stayed until the 20th kilometre, I began to create a gap and ran on my own, I saw my wife just after the first half marathon, which I passed in 1h16'14"
To read the rest of Antonio's report please click here - www.eastlondonrunners.org.uk/results

Sunday 27th May 2018 - Edinburgh Marathon - *******2:36:23 - ELR Club Marathon Record Time Broken again, this time by Antonio Martin Romero!******

An extract from Antonio's Race Report (Full report can be read on the Results Page of this Website)We changed the direction to the west after 30K, just before mile 19. Finally, the wind had disappeared! I started pushing my pace and doing some miles at 5:51 pace, I checked my watch and thought, f*** a PB is very possible today. I wanted to catch another runner who was 200m in front of me, and that made me go faster as he increased his pace as well, people started to yell at me, top 10, top 10.

All the miles after mile 19 were between 5:51-5:55 pace except the last one, that I relaxed a bit the pace in 6:02. I didn't know what time I was doing, with 200m to go, I could see the watch in the finish line, 2:35 something!

I enjoyed those last 200m and finished with a time of 2:36:23. Definitely, 2:35 is not out of reach now. It is time to rest a little bit and focus on Berlin in September. As always, thank you very much to this club and all its runners to make me improve every year.